Have you ever wanted to dump all the SSIS packages stored in msdb out to files? Of course you have, who wouldn’t? Right? Well, at least one person does because this was the subject of a thread (save all ssis packages to file) on the SSIS forum earlier today. Some of you may have already figured out a way of doing this but for those that haven’t ...

This post is a bit off topic for SQL Server proper, but I thought someone out 'oogling teh inter-tubes might find it useful. Our group recently had to perform a large SAN migration both to new equipment and to a new geographic location. We started with a replication method provided by the SAN vendor. I won't mention who, but from where I sit ...